AMD Exercise Planner

KBR Careers; Fort Bliss (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

KBR seeks an Army Air and Missile Defense Exercise Planner to develop realistic training environments and coordinate across joint teams. The role supports AMD commands from planning through evaluation, enabling multi-domain operations.

Expect to leverage MDMP/RDSP, Joint Planning processes, and MS Office to deliver executable exercise scenarios and after-action assessments. Security clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must have SECRET Security clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree or 5 years Military experience with Air and Missile Defense operations.
• Preferred: knowledge of Joint Planning processes, Air and Missile defense capabilities, MDMP and RDSP; MS Office.

Responsibilities

• Develops exercise products for Army Air Defense in live/virtual/constructive environments to train from battery to theater level.
• Provides analytical support to plan, rehearse, conduct, and assess staff exercises and various training events.
• Coordinates with Exercise Control officers on Joint Exercise Life Cycle events including planning, scenario development and scripting.
• Plans and prepares exercise products to facilitate joint air and missile defense operations and related asset management.
• Advises on Army air battle management assets and system activation/deployment.
• Represents LO Command during simulations and generates SITREPs/LOGSTATs in response to injects.

Skills

Joint planning

Air and missile defense

MDMP

RDSP

MS Office

Communication

Organized

Education

Bachelor’s degree

5 years military experience

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Title: AMD Exercise Planner Program Summary KBR’s Missile, Aviation, and Ground Systems (MAGS) division delivers mission engineering solutions for critical U.S. Army programs, specializing in aviation and ground systems, integrated air and missile defense, and threat and target systems. As a trusted partner of the U.S. Department of War, MAGS provides innovative, technology-driven solutions to enhance national security. With a global presence and a strong ethical framework, KBR ensures secure, effective, and mission-ready capabilities worldwide.

Job Summary Ready to step into a role where your skills meet purpose and passion? At KBR, we're seeking a driven Army Air and Missile Defense Exercise planner to join our team and contribute to Air and Missile Defense training. Your contributions will be instrumental in achieving an operationally relevant training environment, driving our mission of realistically portraying Army air and missile defense forces. Join a team committed to excellence, where collaboration and innovation thrive.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Develops effective, robust, reliable and dynamic exercise related products that provide Army Air Defense commanders, staffs, and units the capability to train in an operationally relevant, live, virtual and constructive environment that stimulates multi-domain operations from battery to theater level.
• Provides analytical support to plan, prepare, rehearse, conduct, and assess staff exercises, table-top exercises, Mission Rehearsal Exercises, Culminating Training Events, and unit sustainment training events.
• Coordinates with and assists with exercise Action Officers as required in the various Joint Exercise Life Cycle (JELC) events to include exercise planning, scenario development and scripting.
• Plans, organizes, and prepares exercise products to facilitate joint air and missile defense operations, including AMD capabilities, offensive and defensive counter-air operations, coalition naval capability integration, sensor system management, and data link operations.
• Develops exercise plans for managing assigned army, navy and air forces and reviews and publishes exercise documents such as Special instructions and Area Air Defense Plans.
• Advises on the effective use of army air battle management assets.
• Provides functional expertise and input for activating, employing, deploying, or deactivating army air battle management systems.
• Provides recommendations to create inter-operability among air battle management assets and other warfighting capabilities to enhance exercise operations and allow air defense commanders to increase responsiveness and flexibility.
• Advises on army weapons control capabilities, procedural control methods, and overall joint air battle management.
• Performs other tasks in support of the Joint Training Program, such as developing plans, knowledge management, doctrine review, conference support, and related administrative assignments.
• Serve as a member of the Exercise Control (EXCON) cell and direct the synchronization, execution, and tracking of Master Scenario Events List (MSEL) to maintain realistic training timelines and achieve established commander training objectives.
• Replicate Higher Command (HICOM) staff elements during operational planning and execution and deliver realistic, vertically nested guidance, orders, and information-flow requests to the training audience to simulate realistic multi-echelon.
• Represent Lower Command (LOCOM) and adjacent units within virtual-constructive simulations AND generate timely, standardized subordinate reports (e.g., SITREPs, LOGSTATs) in response to training audience injects to test the unit's battle tracking and decision‑making capabilities.

Basic Qualifications

• Must be a US Citizen
• Must have SECRET Security clearance
• Requires a Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution or 5 years Military experience with Air and Missile Defense operations.

Preferred Qualifications

• A working knowledge of Joint Planning processes,
• Air and Missile defense capabilities,
• Military Decision‑Making Process (MDMP) and Rapid Decision‑making and Synchronization Process (RDSP) Microsoft Office, particularly Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Self‑starter, organized, detail oriented and able to work independently, establish priorities, organize work and maintain performance under pressure of multiple conflicting deadlines

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